David Tsumura (see photo), editor-in-chief and former postdoctoral research fellow, has been working for over a decade towards its completion. David is known worldwide as a scholar in biblical Hebrew linguistics and recently published two papers in a collection of essays on Temporal Consistency and Narrative Cohesion in 2 Samuel 7, 8-11 in and Verticality Biblical Hebrew Parallelism. This is the fifth edition of the Bible in Japanese.